Morgan Cable is a postdoctoral scholar working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) since the summer of 2010. She graduated from Caltech with a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in June of 2010, where she worked with the Ponce Group at JPL and the Gray Group at Caltech. Her graduate research involved lanthanide-based receptor site design for the detection of endospores in extreme environments, both on Earth and potentially Mars. As a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellow, she is currently designing a lab-on-a-chip to separate and characterize the many organics on the surface of Titan.

Morgan hails from Titusville, Florida, a stone's throw away from Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. She is one of a set of triplets; her brother is in residency as an orthopedic surgeon, and her sister has an M.S. in chemistry and is pursuing her medical doctorate. Morgan enjoys surfing, mountain unicycling (muni for short) soccer, and flying Cessna 172s in her free time. She aspires to continue working through NASA to discover more about the universe and our place in it, and to pursue her dream of becoming a NASA Mission Specialist.

education

Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2010

Thesis: Life in extreme environments: Lanthanide-based detection of bacterial spores and other sensor design pursuits, May 2010 [PDF]